A bad reputation? Have you ever ventured out of slashdot? Microsoft is a highly respected company by many business types. It also has quite a high name recognition amongst end-users. My mom, talked to me yesterday about the "Microsoft Home Server" because she saw something about it on TV. Her reaction was more like: "Oh, is this stuff getting popular just now, because we had a home server for years." Yes, mom, but not from Microsoft. (And Microsoft selling home servers is very worrying in my eyes)
Microsoft only has a bad reputation in tech circles, and then only in the opensource section of the tech circles.
Why don't you use WPA? It's 1000x better than WEP. The asshole that wants to crack it will need much more time, and as such will be discouraged even more.
I linked this already elsewhere. It doesn't mention anything about being used for encryption, so I hope you're wrong. (You're not: WPA-PSK uses it in the hash-function of passwords.) Still, the SSID is unhideable, since the first link shows it's transmitted in cleartext.
Hiding your SSID does make a network a less obvious target than one which is visible.
Security through obscurity, eh? Ehm, just saying: the SSID transferred plaintext". Oh, and the equivalent of locking your access point, is not hiding the SSID, but encrypting all connections.
Change default name and password, set WPA, Turn off SSID etc....
I'm okay with all of that. The only thing I never get is why to turn off the SSID broadcast. If it's well secured, it doesn't matter if they know it's there or not. Besides, I'm pretty sure that just listening to traffic will reveal the presence of a wireless network.
I suggest you watch that video again and listen to the comments. They actually laud the security cage. They also say that in any car you'd die due to extreme deceleration.
The old stuff now is more like being given an old Buick from the 1980s... sure, it will probably get you from A to B but it will cost you in fuel and repairs.
Isthatso? You need to frequent better dumpsters;-)
I agree that both gumstix and soekris are great. I want some badly (especially soekris), but they ain't exactly cheap. In the above examples, I pretty much spent 0€ and I have three full-fledged machines that should be able to handle desktop tasks just fine. Home-server tasks even perfectly.
Granted, they probably use more electricity... That's the biggest downside:-(
Well, yes, okay... I understand that. I cannot take the risk, however. The CD Logo guarantees me that I can safely rip it. When I buy a CD, I rip once, and then it goes to the basement. I live in a small apartment, space comes at a premium. It really isn't for pirating, it just is to be able to listen to it on my computer or my iPod enabled stereo.
I have no way of knowing if a CD has the logo, even if it's just a data disk with extra artwork and pre-ripped MP3s for my convenience. For all I know, it will try to install something. (Autorun is off on my machines, the risk is low) So basically, they lost my trust because of DRM and now I go after the only thing that I can still trust: the CD Logo.
Well, I don't know about you, but I'm in continental Europe. While most cases have the CD-Logo (heck, if you buy empty cases they have the CD logo), it's not where you need to look. Look on the disk itself. If the logo is on it, you're safe. However, the logo is pretty much missing on all new CD releases. Also look at the back of the CD, if it says "may not play on a car radio" is means DRM.
Occasionally, I do browse CDs in a normal CD Shop. Everytime I feel like buying a CD, I watch for those signs. I haven't bought a CD in over 3 years.:-(
Can you elaborate on the differences and why LedgerSMB is better? I know LedgerSMB is a fork, but I only found out about it after installing SQL Ledger.
Except for the multi-touch display. I don't think it is worth that amount only for such a display technology... So, definitely no iPhone for me. There are better phones at lower price-point.
Actually, the video states exactly the inverse of what you say. It also states that no matter what car, in such an accident you die. At least they can put you in an open casket... That must count as an advantage.
A slow burn sort of corruption is something a calculating, mercenary industrial saboteur would do. That pro's motivation is probably a payoff and he wants to stay in business
for a slow insidious sort of attack, you have to be a cold, calculating sort of customer
I don't really know if I need to take those statements as ompliments or as an insults;-)
Why so destructive? I would be way more effective to place a "corrupter" on the network. Instead of destroying the data, let it gradually corrupt the data. Way more damage, and probably much harder to recover from with backups.
You're lazy, aren't you? He gave the name of one product in his comment. A Google would have given you what you need.
DOSBox
Now, I'll simply add: FreeDOS, which is really really really good. Better than any PC-DOS or MS-DOS I've ever used. Either run it native on an older machine, or dump it in a virtual machine. Oh, yes, I guess you want a link for that too: VMWare.
In the twenty years I have actively used computers, that got me laid just once. I don't think the effort is worth the reward. (Meaning: it's way too unlikely to get laid that way)
In many corporate internal applications, SQL Injections are treated as if they do not exist. I have pointed out many times in several projects I have worked on that any malevolent person could do some very very nasty things. They don't care... "It's not open on the Internet". I just hope we'll never have a disgruntled employee that is a bit more geeky than the others.
High-end stuff may require you to buy drivers. Yes... Oddly enough. I remember drivers for OS/2 being pay-only. That was Iomega (the Bernouilli Drives) That is a very long time ago, but I'm not all that surprised.
Ends up with a monster PC for gaming that is just as outdated in three years as the cheap one the salesman wanted to sell him
While I don't doubt that scenario: my wife has a gaming machine (at least it was in 2003), because her ex seemed to think it was necessary. However, salesmen are going to sell you the most expensive machine they'll be able to sell you. So, yes that 600$ laptop is going to be sufficient, but if they can get away with selling you a 1200$ machine, they most definitely will!
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A bad reputation? Have you ever ventured out of slashdot? Microsoft is a highly respected company by many business types. It also has quite a high name recognition amongst end-users. My mom, talked to me yesterday about the "Microsoft Home Server" because she saw something about it on TV. Her reaction was more like: "Oh, is this stuff getting popular just now, because we had a home server for years." Yes, mom, but not from Microsoft. (And Microsoft selling home servers is very worrying in my eyes)
Microsoft only has a bad reputation in tech circles, and then only in the opensource section of the tech circles.
Why don't you use WPA? It's 1000x better than WEP. The asshole that wants to crack it will need much more time, and as such will be discouraged even more.
I linked this already elsewhere. It doesn't mention anything about being used for encryption, so I hope you're wrong. (You're not: WPA-PSK uses it in the hash-function of passwords.) Still, the SSID is unhideable, since the first link shows it's transmitted in cleartext.
I'm okay with all of that. The only thing I never get is why to turn off the SSID broadcast. If it's well secured, it doesn't matter if they know it's there or not. Besides, I'm pretty sure that just listening to traffic will reveal the presence of a wireless network.
Damned, posted under my other account. Still, I stand by my opinion.
I suggest you watch that video again and listen to the comments. They actually laud the security cage. They also say that in any car you'd die due to extreme deceleration.
I agree that both gumstix and soekris are great. I want some badly (especially soekris), but they ain't exactly cheap. In the above examples, I pretty much spent 0€ and I have three full-fledged machines that should be able to handle desktop tasks just fine. Home-server tasks even perfectly.
Granted, they probably use more electricity... That's the biggest downside
Well, yes, okay... I understand that. I cannot take the risk, however. The CD Logo guarantees me that I can safely rip it. When I buy a CD, I rip once, and then it goes to the basement. I live in a small apartment, space comes at a premium. It really isn't for pirating, it just is to be able to listen to it on my computer or my iPod enabled stereo.
I have no way of knowing if a CD has the logo, even if it's just a data disk with extra artwork and pre-ripped MP3s for my convenience. For all I know, it will try to install something. (Autorun is off on my machines, the risk is low) So basically, they lost my trust because of DRM and now I go after the only thing that I can still trust: the CD Logo.
Well, I don't know about you, but I'm in continental Europe. While most cases have the CD-Logo (heck, if you buy empty cases they have the CD logo), it's not where you need to look. Look on the disk itself. If the logo is on it, you're safe. However, the logo is pretty much missing on all new CD releases. Also look at the back of the CD, if it says "may not play on a car radio" is means DRM.
Occasionally, I do browse CDs in a normal CD Shop. Everytime I feel like buying a CD, I watch for those signs. I haven't bought a CD in over 3 years. :-(
Can you elaborate on the differences and why LedgerSMB is better? I know LedgerSMB is a fork, but I only found out about it after installing SQL Ledger.
I always heard that the Universe consisted entirely out of matter. Now they discovered antimatter in the wild! That's exciting...
Except for the multi-touch display. I don't think it is worth that amount only for such a display technology... So, definitely no iPhone for me. There are better phones at lower price-point.
Actually, the video states exactly the inverse of what you say. It also states that no matter what car, in such an accident you die. At least they can put you in an open casket... That must count as an advantage.
I do think you need to watch this video before judging the Smart.
Guess I tend to think that data is more important that people ;-) You don't do these kinds of stunts in order to make them re-hire you.
Why so destructive? I would be way more effective to place a "corrupter" on the network. Instead of destroying the data, let it gradually corrupt the data. Way more damage, and probably much harder to recover from with backups.
You're lazy, aren't you? He gave the name of one product in his comment. A Google would have given you what you need. DOSBox
Now, I'll simply add: FreeDOS, which is really really really good. Better than any PC-DOS or MS-DOS I've ever used. Either run it native on an older machine, or dump it in a virtual machine. Oh, yes, I guess you want a link for that too: VMWare.
In the twenty years I have actively used computers, that got me laid just once. I don't think the effort is worth the reward. (Meaning: it's way too unlikely to get laid that way)
Do you want to know what is even scarier?
In many corporate internal applications, SQL Injections are treated as if they do not exist. I have pointed out many times in several projects I have worked on that any malevolent person could do some very very nasty things. They don't care... "It's not open on the Internet". I just hope we'll never have a disgruntled employee that is a bit more geeky than the others.
*sigh*
Little Bobby Tables
High-end stuff may require you to buy drivers. Yes... Oddly enough. I remember drivers for OS/2 being pay-only. That was Iomega (the Bernouilli Drives) That is a very long time ago, but I'm not all that surprised.